[Congressional Record Volume 172, Number 105 (Tuesday, June 23, 2026)]
[Senate]
[Page S3030]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                                  IRAN

  Mr. SCHUMER. Mr. President, on Iran, with his failed and reckless war 
in Iran, Trump has turned ``the art of the deal'' into ``the art of the 
blunder.'' Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and JD Vance are too afraid to 
come in front of the American people and the whole Senate to defend 
their war and so-called understanding, so now Trump will talk only to 
Senate Republicans behind closed doors. Senate Republicans need to 
grill Donald Trump for answers--for answers on where negotiations 
stand--when he meets with them at the Capitol tomorrow.
  Trump and Vance hadn't even finished their phony victory lap 
yesterday when Iran announced that it did not make any commitments to 
allow nuclear inspections--no commitments to allow nuclear 
inspections--even though that was supposed to be one of the mainstays 
of what Trump was pursuing. Trump also claimed that the Strait of 
Hormuz was fully open even though shipping through the waterway remains 
a small fraction of what it was before the war. In more than a week 
after announcing side deals and so-called understandings with Iran, the 
administration still hasn't briefed Congress or the American people on 
what has actually been agreed to.
  Wishful thinking won't end this war, and certainly Senate 
Republicans' calls to pump hundreds of billions of dollars more into 
Trump's fiasco will make matters even worse.
  Republicans can complain about Trump's war, his secrecy, and his 
disastrous deal with Iran all they want behind closed doors, but the 
only way to ensure this war ends once and for all is for Republicans to 
act.
  Later today, Democrats will once again put Republicans on the record 
as to whether they want Trump's disastrous war to continue by forcing a 
vote on a House-passed Iran War Powers Resolution for the first time. 
We have held nine other votes on our War Powers Resolutions to end the 
war, and Senate Republicans have left the American people disappointed 
each time. We have forced this fight on the floor again and again for 
more than 100 days: Only Congress has the power to take our Nation to 
war, not Donald Trump alone.
  Republicans need to support our War Powers Resolution to end the war, 
and they need to hold Trump's feet to the fire in their meeting 
tomorrow.

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